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w yBEER STILL. No. 328,708.. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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said space or compartment is a pipe, f by mash Within the still.

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are controlled by .valves c. A space o-r eompartment, e, is left between the vlower partie UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEd WILLIAM J. ocoNNon, 'PATRICK WALSH, AND EDWARD L. MARTIN, or KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

BEER-STILL.'

SPECIPICATIONforming part'of Letters Patent'N. 328,708, dated October.2'0,i1885.

Application tiled August 1, 1885.

To a/ZZ whom, it concern.:

Be it known that we, WILLTAMJ. O CONNOR, i PATRICK WALSH, and E. L. MARTIN, citizens of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county'of Jackson and State of Mis-- souri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer-Stills; and we do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement. in beer-stills; and it'consists in the improved construction and combinations o f parts hereinafted fully described, and pointed outin the claims.

lIn the drawings, Figure-1 is a longitudinall verticalsection of our improvement. Fig. 2

l', and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line'yy-of Fig. l. In the accompanying drawings, in 'which' like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures A represents the still proper; B, theheater and condenser, and the The still A consists D, by meansv of partitions Il.A These partitions -E are each provided with a series of pipes, G, which are covered by caps ci, ,whereby s'everal'compartments. The. upper two partitions of the series E have openings b, which tion andthe series F, and communicating with means of which steam may be introduced to the said space or, compartment to heat the Communicating with the space or compartment e is a device, H, for blowing out the mash4 from the said space after the spirits hav 'a been extracted from the said mash.:

Conn'ectingthe several compartments of the still formed by the partitions F area seriesofpipes, H H', the pipes H being' located at about the centers of ythe partitions, while the pipes Hiare locatedat the sides of the same.

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By this arrangement one compartment is con- ,nected` with the adjacent compartment at one Surrounding the lower ends of the -pipes side.

H' Hare pans or basins I, the purposeof z which is to prevent the steam ipassing through the stillfrorn interfering with the mash as it drops fromone compartment to the subjacent or compartment below. Upon the upper side .of each -of'the partitions F are spirally-arranged partitions I, thus forming spirally-ar-v ranged-ways or passages h, through which 'the beer or mash passes. The pipesH communicate with said ways or passages at the sides of the same, so that before the beer or mash can escape to the lower compartment it must pass through these spirallyarranged ways or passages, so that it is thoroughly vaporized 4by the time the lower coinpartmentis reached.' The heater'or condenser B is arranged on a plane above the Vstill A, and said heater or condenserconsists of afcylind'er, within which' isa-spirally-arranged pipe, J. The said pipe .Il passesout through the side of the cylinder ,and communicates with the still A inthe'third compartment from the top of `saidstill. By this means it will beseen' that the beer or mash placedin thepipe Jwill be carried through said pipe into the still A, and from the compartment which it enters 'to thesev-V eral compartments below.- g Y K represents a pipe. which connects the more fully'set lower` end of the heater orcondenser B with Vthe-upper compartment in the still A, the

carrythe vapor from the still Ato the con- 'denser B; Vithin the condenser B, at suit,

able intervals, are 'placed dividing-plaies M, which are narrower than. the casing, thus leaving a space bet weon their edges and the sides of the casing.

N represents pipes'which communicate with the condenser B at the poiutsat which the dig mash is placed in the pipe J, and from there passes into the third compartment of the still A.- -Steam is admitted through the pipe in the lower end of the stills The vapor caused by the mash becoming heated passes up through pipe L into-the heater or condenser,

l and there serves to thoroughly and eiiectually heat the mash within the pipe J. The vapor coming in Contact with the cool pipes through which the mash is conveyed is in part cooled and a portion drops to the bottom of the heater or condenser,'and from there it passes through the pipe K to the still, where it is boiled.- The vapor which may arise beyond the dividing-plates and there become cooled is carried back to the'bottom of the condenser by the pipes N, and then back intothe still. Thevapor which is not cooled or which passes through the hea-ier is carried by the pipe O in the final condenser, and there condensed by a cooling agent placed in the cylinder of the condenser-aud surrounding the part of the pipe O which is coiled.

In the upper end of the condenser or heater B we have shown a plate, P, the purpose of which is to prevent heavy matter from being blown through the heater into the final condenser.

Having thus described Claimour invention, we p l. The combination, with a still, of 'a heater 4..

having a coiled pipe therein, said pipe communicating with the still, the division-plates M, the pipes N, arranged as described, the plate P, the pipes K L, the final condenser, and the pipe connecting the final condenser and the heater, substantially as set forth.

2. rlhe combination, with the still divided into a series of compartments or chambers,

of the vapor-pipes, pipes connecting the com-- partments, the spirally -arranged partiti-pnwalls, the heater having the coiled pipe J,

communicating with the still, the pip EsKIL, the plate M, pipes N, and final condenser, substantially as set forth.

3. In a beer-still, a heater having a coiled i pipe therein, plates M, thepipesN, extending from the plates M and communicating with the heater below the coiled pipe, and the plate l?, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures .in presence of two witnesses.

J. OCONNOR, PATRICK WALSH. EDWARD L. MARTIN. Witnesses:

O'. A. MORRIS, CHARLES J. IRn.`vnn.4 

